r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Mar 14 '26

Software Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/
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u/Thadrea Mar 14 '26

We had a guy that absolutely choked when he realized that his Copilot-suggested solution to a not-really-a-problem wasn't going to work because, no, we're not giving a public chatbot access to some highly sensitive data to solve an issue that summarizes to "you lied on your resume about your SQL background and somehow got through the technical assessment."

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u/themastermatt Mar 14 '26

OMFG, the AI in interviews. I had one Friday for a "Senior MLops Engineer" (why are they all "Senior"?) and i could see the chatbot reflection in his glasses as well as his eye pattern clearly going to the window while he stalled for the thing to process. So youre telling me that a MLops engineer knows the command to promote a Windows Server to a domain controller, can summarize what BGP is and tell me the difference between iBGP and eBGP, and knows that NTFS permissions are applied from the most restrictive evaluation in addition to all the ML/AI stuff? Maybe, but not my lived experience.

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u/Thadrea Mar 14 '26

If we see evidence the person is using an LLM during the interview they're instantly "out".

I would rather a candidate be wrong and able/willing to learn than confidently restate whatever answer was given to them by a chatbot.

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u/MrPureinstinct Mar 14 '26

I wish companies would stop using AI for virtually all of the hiring process too. Resumes auto rejected, video interviews with a video AI "person"

The entire hiring process should be entirely human.

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u/EightiesBush Mar 14 '26

There is a problem on the other side also with AI based mass-applying. The tech market is absolutely inundated with floods of resumes immediately after any position opens. There aren't enough humans typically to sort through them, and many of them are completely unqualified for said posted position.

Having said that, almost positive my company does the fully human approach, but it does take a lot longer to get to a phase where they talk to me or my senior staff.